The Scar­let Pim­per­nel

Richard E. Grant (left) was well-suited to this pleas­ingly frivolous three-part pe­riod drama, which pit­ted his Pim­per­nel against a de­light­fully sin­is­ter Martin Shaw as head of Robe­spierre’s se­cret po­lice. Con­tin­ues next Satur­day.